back to square one - band slip fixed - back on liquids

[hopingtobehealthy 0]

How did your doctor figure out your band had slipped? I am nauseated a lot but seem to get better in the evenings. I was self pay and am very scared that I have slipped

[pennreporter 12]

Hoping, I just found out my band has slipped...nauseated is not necessarily the sign of a slipped band. I think mine actually slipped a few months ago because I had .5 cc taken out and it was fine for a few weeks and then gradually kept getting tighter and tighter to where Soup wouldn't even go down. The last five days (last week) ice chips wouldn't go down, saliva wouldn't and the throwing up was retching up blood because clearly no food/liquid was being taken in. They did an x-ray at ER, then a fluoro before fill was taken out and one after fluoro was taken out. They could proceed with just trying to fill it again, because after fill was taken out the band popped back up to where it was supposed to be. So they think the stitches holding it have come loose. But my surgeons are relatively inexperienced with banding so they really don't know. So I go back in for a revision and they will check it out and make sure that everything else is okay while they're in there.

But if you're not throwing up and not being blocked, I would say probably not slipped but a fluoroscopy and/or an x-ray would be the definitive way to tell.

good luck

trisha

[Emilie1 3]

Do you have your gallbalader? If you do that can cause nausia also....Do you have any reflux? I had never had reflux until the band slipped...that included weighing 273, and having three large babies...Good luck...hope all is well.

[Emilie1 3]

This thread makes me feel good about my decission to wait on my revesion....I don't want to loose my band, but have plans that having it revised now will interfer with...I will be paying close attention to what my body is telling me between now and the end of july when i am planning my revision...If anyone has anything that I should look out for that would warn of a problem please let me know...and/or what you were able to eat afer a slippage, but before having it fixed...thanks for any input...

[LEXUS86985 21]

So I'm trying to figure out why all of a sudden I am having Heartburn like crazy!!! I've never had a problem with heartburn in my life!! It's the MOST uncomfortable feeling ever!! I've been researching the symptoms of the band slipping. It sounds like it could be, but I'm not so sure. I think I may have irritated the band by eating too much. I have those days where even now I feel like I can't control what I'm eating.

I had my second fill about 6 weeks ago and it was too tight so we took some of the fill out. I'm at 1.25cc in a 10cc band...no restriction at all!! I was having so many problems for some reason. I even had a GI appt and they did an endoscopy. He said everything was fine...and I didn't have any restriction. But since that 2nd fill, I've had some pain swallowing liquids!!! I'm not sure how I can have pain when I don't have any restriction!! Now all of a sudden I am getting heartburn. It begins in the morning when I take my medication. Anything I eat or drink is like churning hot lava in the my stomach!! It feels much better to not eat or drink!! I don't want to be a hyperchondriac, but this sucks!!!

I started taking a boxing class last week...it's physically difficult...could that have anything to do with this?? I imagine the band slipping would "HURT"...I don't have nausea or vomitting...just burning. Anyone have any clues??? :frown:

[hopingtobehealthy 0]

I also have had that lava feeling--for me that was reflux and bad reflux. I take prescription pills twice a day and still get reflux with some foods. Thanks to all who responded to my post. My nausea is much better. I think I had irritated my band through eating too fast and not chewing well enough and at times pding. Hopefully I learned something from this. I was private pay and it would be financially devastating to have to pay again.

[LEXUS86985 21]

Wow...I have to give you credit...I would NOT have done this if my insurance had not paid for it!!! I was worried about the $250 copay turning into $500 when they admitted me!!! Good for you!!

I seem to be doing a little bit better today. When I took my pills this morning it was like a volcano erupting slowly with lava!! Anything I ate was like splashing into the lava and creating a burn. It's not there when I don't eat though. I just ate some tuna... it was feeling like it was getting stuck!! But if I sit up straight it felt better. The more I think about it the more I think the band slipped. But I really don't want another surgery. I'm going to take it easy this weekend...try to stick to soft foods and see what happens.